Baby the Rain Must Fall is a 1965 American drama film directed by Robert Mulligan and starring Lee Remick, Steve McQueen and Don Murray.

Henry is a somewhat irresponsible rockabilly singer-guitarist who has recently been released from prison after serving time for stabbing a man during a drunken brawl, and wasn't thinking of Georgette at all.

When Kate Dawson dies, Henry drunkenly destroys her possessions the evening after the funeral – several shots show the belt she beat him with, untouched, hanging on a door near her bedroom – leaves with the silver willed to Mrs. Tillman, then wrecks his car on the cemetery gate and repeatedly stabs her grave with a knife in hysteria while, unbeknownst to him, his wife is nearby watching in horror.

The isolated country rental house scenes in which Henry, Georgette and Margaret Rose live together were filmed near Bay City, just inland of the Gulf coast, south of Wharton and Columbus.

It is the failure of the screenwriter--Mr. Foote himself--to clarify why the object of the woman's deep affection is as badly mixed-up as he is and why the woman, who seems a sensible person, doesn't make a single move to straighten him out...Granting that the wife is astonished and distressingly mystified at the neurotic behavior of her husband, this doesn't mean that the viewer is satisfied to be kept in the dark as to the reasons for the stark and macabre goings-on...As it is, we only see that these two people are frustrated and heart-broken by something that's bigger than the both of them.

"[7] The staff at Variety wrote that the film's chief assets were "outstanding performances by its stars and an emotional punch that lingers...Other cast members are adequate, but roles suffer from editorial cuts (confirmed by director) that leave sub-plots dangling.